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Monday, July 17, 2017

Hilde Moller and the Vermes Quest—Chris Keith

Readers of the Jesus Blog may be interested in this new book in the Library of New Testament Studies. Hilde Brekke Moller has written the first full assessment of Geza Vermes's impact on historical Jesus studies.

About The Vermes Quest

Geza Vermes is a household name within the study of the
historical Jesus, and his work is associated with a significant change
within mainstream Jesus research, typically labelled 'the third quest'.
Since the publication of Jesus the Jew in 1973, many notable Jesus
scholars have interacted with Vermes's ideas and suggestions, yet their
assessments have so far remained brief and ambiguous. Hilde Brekke
Moller explores the true impact of Vermes's Jesus research on the
perceived change within Jesus research in the 1980s, and also within
third quest Jesus research, by examining Vermes's work and the reception
of his work by numerous Jesus scholars.

Moller looks in
particular depth at the Jewishness of Jesus, the Son-of-Man problem, and
Vermes's suggestion that Jesus was a Hasid, all being aspects of
Vermes's work which have attracted the most scholarly attention.
Moller's research-historical approach focuses not only on the leading
scholars of the field such as E.P. Sanders, J.D. Crossan, J.P. Meier and
C.A. Evans, but also sheds light on underplayed aspects of previous
research, and responds to the state of affairs for recent research by
challenging the rhetoric of current historical Jesus scholarship.

Table of contents

AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPart I: IntroductionCh. 1: The Significance of Geza Vermes for Jesus ResearchCh. 2: Vermes and Jesus ResearchCh. 3: The History of Jesus Research: Mapping the Quest(s)Ch. 4: Vermes' Jewish Jesus (1973)Ch. 5: The Significance of Jesus the Jew (The 1970s and 1980s)Ch. 6: The Jewishness of Jesus Before VermesCh. 7: The Significance of Vermes' Work on the Son of ManCh. 8: Final Considerations on the Jewishness of Jesus Within Jesus ResearchPart II: The Significance of Vermes' Hasid TheoryCh. 9: Vermes's Hasid Theory and its PrecursorsCh. 10: The Hasid Theory Within Jesus Research After 1973Ch. 11: Hanina Ben Dosa Heals From a Distance: A Case of Christian Influences Upon Talmudic Judaism?Part III: Conclusions and OutlookCh. 12: Conclusion Ch. 13: OutlookBibliographyIndex

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James Crossley (PhD, Nottingham) is Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London. In addition to most things historical Jesus, his interests typically concern Jewish law and the Gospels, the social history of biblical scholarship, and the reception of the Bible in contemporary politics and culture. He is co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Christine Jacobi studied protestant theology and art history in Berlin and Heidelberg. She is research associate at the chair of exegesis and theology of the New Testament and apocryphal writings. She completed her dissertation at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014. She is the author of Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus? Analogien zwischen den echten Paulusbriefen und den synoptischen Evangelien (BZNW 213), Berlin: de Gruyter 2015. Christine Jacobi is a member of the „August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum“ and the „Berliner Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften“.

Chris Keith (PhD, Edinburgh) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.

Anthony Le Donne (PhD, Durham) is Associate Professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary. He is the author/editor of seven books. He is the co-founder of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts Consultation and the co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Brant Pitre (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Among other works, he is the author of Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile (Mohr-Siebeck/Baker Academic, 2005), and Jesus and the Last Supper (Eerdmans, 2015). He is particularly interested in the relationship between Jesus, Second Temple Judaism, and Christian origins.

Rafael Rodríguez (PhD, Sheffield) is Professor of New Testament at Johnson University. He has published a number of books and essays on social memory theory, oral tradition, the Jesus tradition, and the historical Jesus, as well as on Paul and Pauline tradition. He also serves as co-chair of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

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